Genuine question: why are we so bad at theory in Classics? Granted my thesis is heavily theory based, but I have read so much outside the discipline this past year and it has improved my work so much. Why are we so behind??
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I've always found it very hard to balance the degree to which I need to have a command of Greek and Latin with the need to master the theory of the historical discipline, with the need to also be in command (as a military historian) of military theory and terminology.
I can only imagine those pressures would be even harder to navigate if I had to also master, say, the complexities of poetic meter or heaven help me archaeological praxis for field work at the level that a philologist or an archaeologist does.
